That's great. I just wanted to make sure that you had something to compare your edge with a (no offense) proper edge.
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That's great. I just wanted to make sure that you had something to compare your edge with a (no offense) proper edge.
Oh, i understand. No offence taken here. I thought maybe you was going to send me a razor to have. Just kidding. Thanks for checking on me.
It will shave arm hair at skin level. Not above skin level and ive never been able to do the HHT. Maybe its my hair, i dont know. Ive just never been able to do the HHT. Even with a freshly honed razor by a Honmiester. Ill give a few passes on water only anf give another shave test. I understand what your saying. Trying to shave with something that you have no idea about how sharp it is sound like a dumb ... move!
I've never been able to get an HHT to work for me either. About my only test is at the bevel set stage and that is to make sure the blade cuts arm hair at skin level all along the edge. After that it is all checking with a loupe to see if I am getting all the way to the edge all along the blade at each stage. Then the shave test. Eventually you will find what works for you and what the indicators are for you.
Bob
Thanks for that Bob. Makes me feel i little better.
You are welcome. Had to learn honing on my own because there is nobody near me so I know how frustrating it can be. If it does get frustrating walk away and come back when you are in a better mood. When it starts to come together I think you will find it very satisfying. Good luck.
Bob
It depends on the hair as much as the edge. I used to have the same issue with the HHT and the arm hair test. The first meet-up I attended was almost 10 years ago and there I watched Randy hone a razor and test the edge by tree-topping his arm hair. I eagerly asked to try out the razor on my arm hair. That was my first ever opportunity to try anyone else's edge. I was surprised to find that Randy's edge, like my own, would not tree top my arm hair or pass the HHT with my hair. I had read so many descriptions of edge testing on arm hair and the HHT and neither ever worked for me. I simply had assumed that I could not hone as well as the other guys on the forum.
It turned out that my edges were fine. The problem was that my hair was even more fine. I have the arm hair of a 3 year old girl and never have had any luck with either of the standard tests.
Fortunately, I do not have the chest hair of a three year old girl and have found that I can use that for the HHT.
Now, I am not suggesting that you use my chest hair for your tests. :gaah: The point simply is that you need some sort of test that you can calibrate for a reproducible result. That hair can be from any part of your, or anyone else's, body. Just use whatever works for you.
And do make sure you have permission first!
Kidding aside, I'm lucky that both my arm and chest hair work OK for HHTs. The only issue there is they work so well they can give a false positive. For example, a Torrey straight I was working on recently. It had some burrs near the toe, but tree-topped hair all along the blade. I didn't catch the issue until alter the shave test. Yet another learning experience.
Most of those tests don't work for me either. I have fine arm hair as well. I use leg hair to test the bevel setting stage along with TPT and TNT.
After that the next test is shaving. I use a loupe just to make sure there is no micro-pitting but for the most part after 1K I'm just guessing/going by experience and hone feedback.
I hadn't thought about chest hair before (not that I have a lot of that) but when I've shaved most accessible leg hair I guess I can now check for chest hair! :)
Great info. Ill try some other hairs. I did try my grandaughters hair and that didnt work. The wife cleans her brush out every time she uses it. I got cat hair? Hear kitty kitty. The wife would kill me.
Thanks all.
Just to throw an extra wrench into the works...
Not ALL of your hairs will cut the same way either. If you happen to be of the older persuasion, and have some gray hairs, those gray ones may cut differently than the ones clinging to their youth. I have found that my gray hairs seem to be more brittle and cut more easily.
Well, I am of the older persuasion. 95% of my hair is grey. It seems to me that my hair is just very fine and grey now so it might not be the type that works like this HHT needs. I'll figure out something. Thanks Utopian for calling me an old man in a nice way. Ha.
It's all a matter of calibration. You CAN use gray hair, but then you always need to test with gray hair. You just need to look for a consistent response.
Well, it's probably due to the cool factor of your gray hair spending time on the stage.
Sorry to bring this back up but...
Im waiting for the meet and greet and for hones to come in the mail. So ive not messed with that razor again but...
I was looking in the mirror getting ready to shave. Face still dry. Touch my razor to my mustashe and the razor grabbed on like it had Fingers. I didnt want to cut my mustashe or yank a hair out but i think i found test hairs that work.
Who woulda' thought a whisker would work for testing??? :gaah:
Start a thread !! :D